Ainsley Thomas Battles is a former professional American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 safety in the National Football League

National Football League

The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

. He played four seasons for the Pittsburgh Steelers

Pittsburgh Steelers

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 and the Jacksonville Jaguars

Jacksonville Jaguars

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. During a heated 2003 training camp battle for starting

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 strong safety with the Buffalo Bills

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, Ainsley Battles left the team for an undisclosed reason. Ainsley Battles is currently a high school world history teacher at Archer High School on New Hope Rd. near his hometown in Lawernceville,Ga